Podcast 434: How Attachment Styles Affect Relationships & Other Advice from Two Relationship Therapists

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to licensed therapist and life coach John Kim about his amazing new book It’s Not Me, It’s You, simple tips to improve your relationships, how to manage feelings of resentment, the importance of love languages and attachment styles, how to break the blame cycle, and so much more.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

6:08 Working on your relationship while raising kids

10:50 Careers, relationships & children

12:05 Why John & his partner Vanessa wrote It’s Not Me, It’s You

14:16 The “lightning in a bottle” myth

20:25 Rocky times do not mean that a relationship is a failure

21:30 The importance of compromise & communication

21:43 Try to understand before trying to be understood

25:11 How childhood protective habits & attachment styles can affect relationships

29:58 How to find beauty in the contrast & improve understanding

35:28 Relationships are not easy but they are worth it!

41:18 How to manage arguments: don’t wait to long.

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